Limboland Lyrics

Gonna lay my aching soul out

On a flatbed truck tonight

Fading out to stars above Montana

As the highway rumbles beneath

And the long necks squish inside

Wishing I hadn't mislaid my pride

Dancing at the inauguration ahead of the tide

With rustlers hustling doodads and hip fads

Who faded like 30-foot high movie screens into worn blue jeans

Past screams of teens whistling limelight on the moor

Acting fast on a walnut, washed down

In a stream of old apartments, windows broken

Wind beating in, stairway creaking of ghosts

On a cold November morning, frozen

Waking, shivering to the dawn

Trying to remember how we ever got along, distancing

Ourselves from the true realms of dreams

Rebating possibilities, rejecting cautious cures

As dusty moonlit gamblers lay their soiled cards down

To dance with the arrangers of insignificance

Sanctifying whims of a suffering path evolutionary

Towards perpetual dusk

While I, on hand at dawn

For the cold morning chill in the recruitment of believers wince

At the blinding, heated of light of dancers

In the distance, a mighty resonance of love

That isn't lost on the rhythms of iron engineers

Rusting their arms on the mirage

Of a conflict-free existence in a paycheck

After all is said and done

Is loss lost, are winnings won?

Love hated and humiliated, wades

In a murky misdirected shipwreck

Without a guide through history's abuse

As bloodshed ailing millions doesn't stain the oiled machine

Blasting earth into worn craters, frozen deserts

Sterile forests, radioactive moms

We smile, cancerous

Our neon emblems blazing in the unforgiving night

I've a long way to go before I leave this world

A little better than I found it

Sustainable with a little human growth

Heat from our loving with tools from our trades

Uncovering the formation of our future with

Abundance from the sun, wind and rising oceans

We've a long way to go

To get over the hump of terror

White knuckled chandeliers wagging carrots in front of carts

Beefing up brilliance as though it never existed

Sniffing up angel dust with a confident grimace

Guarding a back wallet with a gyrating groin

Misfits emptied of character, Dervishes steadfast

Coins collected from a fountain of wishes

Beauty and death, lingering unrest

Should earth hurl itself suddenly

into the sun, heated from within

Imploding, shaken to nothingness

Would still our songs echo through

The universe like fields of sunflowers

blazing in the night?

There's danger in each stroke

The pain of transience

In the divinity of infinity

Gonna lay my aching soul

Out on a flatbed truck tonight

Fading out to stars above Montana

Stars so close they pull you to eternity

Smiling knowing

Even a heartbreak

Is better than naught